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WMC / Re: Amazing

« on: January 17, 2011, 01:11:32 PM »

Sorry if I haven't made myself clear. As it stands I can get it to work and open movies via Voxcommando by phrase, however the way I created the .xml was long-winded. I exported a dir listing of my movie folders to a text file which I then opened in Excel and played about with for an hour until I could export it as an .xml in your format.

I'm sure you'd have a clever way of doing this and if it could be added as a button in Voxcommando (i.e. generate WMC movie payload file from folder structure) I thought it might be a worthy addition and useful to other users of WMC?

Paul

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WMC / Re: Amazing

« on: January 17, 2011, 11:57:48 AM »

OK thanks for that, I will look into XBMC as an alternative. As for the XML file structure I just copied your exisiting format and created the phrase based on the filename minus it's extension.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
- <PayloadsRoot xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
- <payload>
  <value>"path to folder\file"</value> e.g - "C:\Moveis\The Road (2009)\The Road.avi"
  <phrase>phrase to launch movie</phrase> e.g - The Road
  </payload>
</PayloadsRoot>

Would be handy if, like you mention, you could set a root path that is scanned for media and added to a payload.  I'll let you decide on whether you think this sort of support would benefit other WMC users and whether you want to spend any time on it though as I have no idea how long that would take!!!

Thankss,

Paul

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WMC / Re: Amazing

« on: January 17, 2011, 08:49:33 AM »

Hello all,

Firstly a thank you James, this is a rather nifty little app. I had a play with it over the weekend and I love the ability to select music by artist, song, etc. but was disappointed the same could not be achieved with my video library. Not sure if you already have something in the pipeline but as workaround I added the command

Launch.RawParam | c:\windows\ehome\ehshell.exe&&{1}

and linked this to an xml file I had generated containing the location and launch phrase for my films. Unfortunately I am not a programmer and have not even used XML files before so I could only achieve this (in my limited knowledge) by dumping a directory export into Excel and exporting it as an XML. If you could streamline this process as you have with the music artists it could be a workaround in WMC for launching films by name. Just an idea, hopefully helpful?

Thanks,

Paul